In 2021, we need to fix America’s internet: We pay twice as much as Europe for high speeds, assuming we can even get them from r/technology
IN 2021, WE NEED TO FIX AMERICA’S INTERNET
We pay twice as much as Europe for high speeds, assuming we can even get them
https://www.theverge.com/22177154/us-internet-speed-maps-competition-availability-fcc
Across the country, the FCC and internet service providers are pretending there’s competition in an unimaginable number of places where it doesn’t actually exist.
As FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel wrote for The Verge last March, as many as one in three US households doesn’t have broadband internet access, currently defined as just 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up — which feels like the bare minimum for a remote learning family these days.
early 12 million children don’t have a broadband connection at home, the Senate Joint Economic Committee reported in 2017. And the “homework gap” hits harder if you’re poor, of course: only 56 percent of households with incomes under $30,000 had broadband as of last February, according to the Pew Research Center.
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more on netneutrality in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=netneutrality
https://www.facebook.com/groups/onlinelearningcollective/permalink/726309151333119/
My note: a genuine reflection of faculty’s opinion; beyond the promotion…
I have been given an opportunity to use OERs for a new position. (Still adjunct.) Before i spend more time down this rabbit hole, what are the pros and cons?
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more on OER in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=oer
Zoom Shared US User Data With Beijing from r/news
https://www.ntd.com/zoom-shared-us-user-data-with-beijing_544087.html
Former Zoom executive Jin Xinjiang worked with Chinese authorities to provide data on users outside of China. Court documents say this allowed Zoom to keep market access in China.
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more on Zoom in this iMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=zoom
DeepMind’s AI agent MuZero could turbocharge YouTube from r/technews
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55403473
MuZero follows in the footsteps of:
Most recently, DeepMind – which is owned by the same parent as Google’s – made a breakthrough in protein folding by adapting these techniques, which could pave the way to new drugs to fight disease.
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more on youtube in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=youtube
more on AI in this iMS Blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=artificial+intelligence+
“Rudderless” QAnon may reinvent itself after US election, warn experts – Trump’s defeat hurts movement, but influencers continue to hype conspiracy theory. from r/politics
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/rudderless-qanon-may-reinvent-itself-after-us-election-warn-experts/XEPR5CB7IVUVK4ZUHROBKY4HLU/
https://www.ft.com/content/357272df-46a1-4ed9-88b2-f5188d624e62
https://www.fr24news.com/a/2020/12/qanon-rudderless-could-reinvent-itself-after-us-election-experts-warn.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)
the managing director of the right-wing social network Gab described the conspiracy theory as a “new decentralized media network that surfaces, distributes and verifies information in real time.”
Meanwhile, a core of QAnon influencers who have built their careers on conspiracy theory – selling products like health supplements and healing rituals – are unlikely to give up their meal ticket. ”
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more on QAnon in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=qanon
Federal regulators have issued new guidelines letting drones operate at night and over people — a change in the rules that could expand the use of drones for commercial deliveries.
Posted by NPR on Tuesday, December 29, 2020
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more on drones in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=drones
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2020-12-16-now-is-the-time-to-redefine-learning-not-recreate-traditional-school-online
The vast majority of emergent virtual and hybrid learning models appear to be “stuck at substitution”—that is, they seek to recreate or translate the brick-and-mortar school experience into the cloud without stopping to ask which aspects of those models may not truly serve students in the time of COVID-19 or beyond.
When we say “stuck at substitution,” some readers may recognize the SAMR model of education technology integration. The SAMR framework describes four different levels of technology use, from Substitution to Augmentation, Modification and Redefinition (SAMR). At its most basic level, education technology can be used to simply substitute: to replace traditional methods of teaching and learning with ones that are digitally mediated, but are still based on the same basic structure and pedagogy.
edtech can be used for augmentation, to bring some other affordance or benefit to the teaching and learning experience—for example, when that worksheet becomes a shared Google Doc that allows for collaboration and increased critical thinking.
Redefinition means thinking beyond existing paradigms and schedules that are built for an on-campus experience. It is the opportunity to imagine entirely new ways of teaching and learning—for example, attendance policies that emphasize engagement versus seat time, blended learning models that leverage technology for anywhere, anytime learning, and instructional design that allows increased student choice and participation.
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more on online learning in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=online+learning
https://www.nber.org/papers/w28180
the effect of computer-assisted learning on students’ long-term development. We explore the implementation of the “largest ed-tech intervention in the world to date,” which connected China’s best teachers to more than 100 million rural students through satellite internet. We find evidence that exposure to the program improved students’ academic achievement, labor performance, and computer usage.
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A new book by an MIT professor is full of surprising truths about how the brain works.
Posted by EdSurge HigherEd on Thursday, December 24, 2020
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2020-12-22-forgetting-is-a-feature-not-a-bug-how-the-brain-grasps-new-concepts
a new book called “Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn.”
“Our approach to teaching is based on the assumption that the teacher has a pen and the student’s brain is a sheet of paper. That’s actually wrong,”
Forgetting is a key strength of the brain, even though it has to be fought against by teachers, he says. My note: why is this a revelation? My psychology professor in the 80s was drilling in us: one, who does not forget, does not remember.
professors need to space out lessons and reteach important material at intervals, he adds, to get past the tendency to forget. My note: that also has been discussed extensively in the past two decades: e.g. the chunk theory, microlearning etc: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=chunk+theory
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more on the brain and education in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=brain